Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

I could not agree with you more, Chair, on this. A review of penal policy is nearing completion at the moment and that will set out the guiding principles for our priorities. Restorative justice is one of those priorities and a sparing approach to the use of imprisonment. Prison is a sanction of last resort. You are quite right, Chair, about the need to invest in restorative justice on a consistent basis in terms of its application across the country. Announcing it, as we said earlier-----